Sentence examples for to be restive from inspiring English sources

Now the No. 2's -- the sous-chefs, or the chefs de cuisine -- seem to be restive.

Vehicles entering suburbs known to be restive at night were being checked by up to six times at a single roadblock by police officers, the businessman said.

The slippery difference between a thriller and a non-thriller would hardly be worth groping for did not the thriller-writers themselves seem to be restive — chafing to escape, yearning for a less restrictive contract with the reader.

Last year two younger members of the Bancroft family (who mind more about the share price than about dividends) publicly aired their discontent; and other senior members, four of whom are on the board, are said to be restive.

Under the Indonesian republic the people continued to be restive, with open rebellion in 1953, and the creation of Aceh as a special district, administratively equal with the country's provinces, in 1956 did not solve the problem.

Now the [New York City] sous-chefs, or the chefs de cuisine, seem to be restive.

By now, parents may also be restive.

To the Chinese, everything is about stability, and China's impoverished farmers, the country's leadership seemed to fear, are restive enough these days.

Recently Dzagoev made an eye-popping trip to Las Vegas but was restive soon enough at being away from the football field.

On Halloween, while Teri was taking Ella trick-or-treating in our neighborhood, as she had promised to do, Isabel was restive again in my arms.

Conservative Democratic senators whose votes will be needed to break a Republican filibuster are restive over the costs of the overall plan and over including a public option, even with an opportunity for states to opt out.